Someone told me that cleaning an in-line was easy because you could push the crud right through the barrel. I would rather clean a sidelock any day of the week.

I take my T/C Black Diamond apart and go to the laundry tub that has a sprayer. I then put the barrel in the tub on a cloth and spray hot water down the barrel and through the back end of the thing as much as possible, washing out all the crud I can. In the meantime I have some water boiling on the stove.

I then use Birchwood Casey Bore Scrubber solvent and brass brush the barrel and then solvent patches until the rifle barrel is clean. I then clean the the action area with solvent patches. I bought a brush (made for this) that I run into the back end of the rifle where the striker slides forward, and the spring and end knob are located. After I brush that out as best as possible I push solvent soaked paper towel through there until they come out clean.

After wipping it all down, I take a tooth brush and scrub the striker, the breech plug the 209 nipple and the spring in hot soapy water. I then wipe all them off with a Birchwood Casey Bore Scrubber Solvent cloth.

This is where I take the rifle outside lean it against the deck rail and pour the boiling water down the barrel and over the action part of the rifle. With a gloved hand I take the HOT!! barrel back inside and run dry clean patches through it until I am sure there is no moisture left in the rifle. I then spray the trigger assembly down with denatured alcohol to drive any moisture out of it.


Once all the parts are clean and dry, I use Rem Oil in the trigger area. With Birchwood Casey Sheath, I then spray down the striker bar and spring, and wipe the outide of the breech plug off and the 209 nipple. After checking everything else and wiping it down, I run a patch of Sheath down the barrel to protect it.

Re-assemble the rifle and you are done. Before I shoot it next, I run a denatured alcohol patch down the barrel to get any Birchwood Casey Sheath out of it. I am not sure this is necessary, but I always start my shooting with as clean a gun as possible.

Next time I am using Triple Se7en. Pyrodex is a real mess...